You tell us when you entered a short trade and when you cover real time. Hopefully you do better then Ken did with his "20K in inverse" trades.
You mean the board went from overly bearish sentiment to over the top frenzy bearish ? Happens on every correction, this is reminding me a lot of early 2016. You know, after the first rate hike occurred December 2015 ( with many others promised ).
I thought it was me but the board is surely flooded by bearish posters and new bearish threads. I little bit overconfident I would think.
No free lunch. I maintain it's a mixed market not a bear market and a lot of money will stay in stocks. Bonds I hear suck in a rising interest rate environment ( usually money losers ) and the banks will be very slow to raise interest rates on GICs and cash. Something like Enbridge in pipelines seems awfully attractive at 6.77% yield, or TD Bank at 3-4% dividend and several hikes coming. Companies themselves have a ton of cash so I expect a flurry of dividend increases and m&a activity which will tend to be bullish for certain aspects of the market. Any drop that drags stocks like ENB and TD down anything is a buying opportunity. Of course, if the earnings story is too strong ( say in big IT or Cdn energy ), the bear story could kind of fizzle much sooner then people think.
Inflation isn't going to be a long term issue. Markets are forward looking even if you aren't. Here's an interesting fact though. The only trade you've posted in weeks on here was to go long an IT stock. If you are going to spam the board with crash calls, at least put up some trades how you aim to profit from this.